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I made this playlist ages ago, so I'm gonna be guessing where I heard this stuff...

Don Brown - Don't Lose Your Love

This feels like a Flo or Charlie Bones breakfast banger. From a comp called "Seattle Funk, Modern Soul & Boogie: Volume II 1972-1987".

The Wedding Present - Falling

The Wedding Present is one of those bands where I knew the name but not much else. 

So when I saw Hit Parade 1 in a charity shop here in Llantwit for 20p, it was a gamble worth taking. And it paid off with this grungey, dirgey take on Julee Cruise's Falling from the Twin Peaks OST.

Brian Eno - Third Uncle

Just Brian Eno doing post-punk before punk in 1974. Insane, time travel shit.

Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights (Erol Alkan's Love From Below Re-Edit)

Nostalgia is a helluva drug.

Sweeping Promises - Pain Without a Touch

Straight into the top 10 things I've heard this year. Basically Blondie, I'm a sucker for this kind of new wave.

Prefab Sprout - Wild Horses

Unlike Don Brown, I can say that this was definitely played on Do!! You!!! Radio. I'm amazed that I never delved into Prefab Sprout through all my years at TheSprout.

Wwzz - Haf Braf

Absolute killer Welsh rave from 1992. Anyone got an mp3 of this I can have to play on Amser Electroneg?

Pangaea - Like This (Full Mix)

Is this big room house? Festival house?

De Ambassade - Geen Genade

Gloomy moody Dutch minimal wave. Sign me up.

Amser Electroneg 013: Now on MixCloud

You'll find last Friday's Amser Electroneg up on MixCloud like:

Tracklist for Amser Electroneg 013 - 18 March 2022

1. iamamiwhoami - Good Worker
2. De Ambassade - Geen Genade
3. Ryhs - for
4. BMNKY - Ice Stomper
5. Nisantashi Primary School - Mr Fingers
6. Dafydd Pierce - Gwalaxia
7. Black Devil Disco Club - We Never Fly Away Again
8. Jonathan Dunn - Robocop Game Boy Title Theme
9. Haruomi Hosono - Sports Men
10. Dog and Fox - Who Gets The Cows?

I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be back on Bro Radio this Friday as I'm still unwell and testing positive for COVID-19. Not sure what they'll bang on in my absence, but why not take this opportunity to catch up on all the previous Amser Electroneg shows (apart from AE 003, shameful, shameful 003).

Being down with the sickness means I'm probably going to miss Wales v Austria, which fucking sucks. Just thought I'd share that.

Just a couple of mixes I've been enjoying recently

In a wild break from the norm, here's a post that's not about my radio show, an album review I've written for Buzz Magazine, or a narrativeless YouTube Playlist.

Instead, here are three mixes I've been enjoying over the past couple of weeks.

Lugg & Potter 1987 Mix

Dwi'n wedi gwrando i'r mix 'na, pryd dwi'n wedi fynd ymweld i Weston-super-Mare... that's not right, is it? I'm trying to say that I listened to this mix when I went to Weston-super-Mare. 

First played on Huw Stephens' show on BBC Radio Cymru on 24 February 2022, it was made "in celebration of the rerelease of Traddodiad Ofnus' Welsh Tourist Bored album, [and is] a selection of music from the period that inspired us..."

Two main things I took from Lugg & Potter 1987 Mix:

1. I learned where the vocal sample for Lennie De Ice's rave classic We Are i.e comes from (Chaba Fadela - N'sel fik).

2. Like with Brodyr y Ffin - Dal i Freuddwydio recently, if someone can hook me up with an mp3 of Ffenestri - Oes y Cyfrifiaduron to play on Amser Electroneg that would be boss.

Bleep Mix #229 - The Gaslamp Killer: Broadcast Special

Warp released/re-released a couple of hard-to-find Broadcast albums this week. So for the latest Bleep Mix, they got The Gaslamp Killer to stitch together some rarer Broadcast tracks. Well hauntological.

Steve Reich In The Afternoon 18: Ukraine Electronic

Can I just take a moment to applaud that title? Lovely stuff. Anyway, Welsh techno don Ffrancon presents "Five tracks of electronic music from Ukraine, found on Bandcamp." Again, lovely stuff.

Photo credit: Original image - Knud Winckelmann, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Amser Electroneg 012: Now on Mixcloud

I've finally got around to uploading last week's Amser Electroneg to MixCould, which went out on Bro Radio on Friday 11 March 2022.

The delay in sharing AE 012 is due to catching COVID. Boy, does it knock you out a little? I've also been distracting myself with a mix of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Jewel Link Chronicles: Legend of Athena on the Nintendo DS.

Needs must.

Tracklist for Amser Electroneg 012 - 11 March 2022

1. The Knife - Kino
2. Iconic Black Suit - Apocalips
3. Ryhs - moon
4. Veins Full of Static - Ordinary Monsters
5. Konono No 1 - Lufuala Ndonga Edit
6. Nisantashi Primary School - Past Yesterday
7. Eirin Peryglus - Epilog
8. Kathod - Gwenyn
9. Ust - Breuddyd
10. Beverley Glenn-Copeland - Sunset Village

AE 013 should be going out tonight, Friday 18 March 2022, at 10pm on Bro Radio.

Amser Electroneg 011: Now on MixCloud

Last Friday's show on Bro Radio was a St David's Day and St Piran's Day special, so Welsh and Cornish artists only... well lots of Aphex Twin anyway.

Tracklist for Amser Electroneg 011

• Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
• Ryhs - glyp
• The Guilty Spark - Triangles (Remix)
• Umbromaniii - Crimson Bride
• Hylif - Why Don’t You Tell Her
• Brodyr y Ffin - Dal i Freuddwydio
• Aphex Twin - Fingerbib
• Black Devil Disco Culb - Timing, Forget the Timing (Kerrier District Remix)
• Ffrancon - Deep Rural Knight
• Aphex Twin - T69 Collapse

Normal service resumes tomorrow night at 10pm on Bro Radio with #AmserElectroneg 012.

Amser Electroneg 010: Now on MixCloud

A little later than usual, last Friday's Amser Electroneg show on Bro Radio is now up on MixCloud...

Tracklist for Amser Electroneg 010

1. Throbbing Gristle - United (Two Lone Swordsmen Remix)
2. Sally Shapiro - Million Ways
3. The Vanities -  This Ain't Love (Jean Jacques Smoothie Remix)
4. BMNKY - New Toys
5. Thool w/ Marieke - Je Sors (Steppin’ Out)
6. Tornaado - Seitse
7. Umbromaniii - Pets Are Family
8. De Ambassade - Geen Genade
9. Bwana - The Capsules Pride
10. Primal Scream - Loaded

Tonight's show (Friday 4 March) is a Welsh and Cornish special to mark St David's Day and St Piran's Day. Tune in at 10pm on Bro Radio.